The Washington critic., 1887-09-13
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

CHARLES DICKENS, JR., will arrive In this
country about the middle OF October.
Ex-senator wApLEIGH will crate at the
Bradford IN. H. Centennial, septem-
Der a7.
The Hendricks monument at Indianapolis
will be Of rsd granite and bronze, and cost
$25,CC0.
A BASEBALL UMPIRE has married a lop-
sided tennis girl, and 1t is feared that their
posterity Will be cross-eyed.-[ Moraing
Journal.
TIE Governor aud tho Colonel will be in
town this week-about 35 Of the governor
ard about 450 OF the colonel.-[ Philadelphia
Press.
SAYS ex-senator Mcdonald OF Indiana:
"lf Cleveland wants second term, you
may put 1t down as settled fact that he
will get IT,"
she-Freddie, how often have told you
not to play with your soldiers on Sundayf
He-Yes; but, mamma, this Is religious
war; Accident News.
COLONEL FREDERICK DENT GHAHr will
be unanimously nominated for Secretary of
State by the Republican Convention of New
York which meets tomorrow.
General "Psil.n Kearny's First New Jer-
sey brigade will hold its sixth annual re.
ubion at Trenton tomorrow. Among the
invited gnests will be j. Watts Kcarny, son
Of the General.
THE annual meeting Of the ex-Confed-
crate Association OF Missouri will be held
in Mexico, Audraiu County, tomorrow
CONGRESSMAN w. q. z. Breckenridge OF
Kentucky is to he orator OF the day,
TIE will of Mrs. Vincent, the Boston ac-
tress, who died last week, leaves $1,000 to
| each OF her six nieces and nephews; $1,000
| to the Humane Society and $500 to the So
| ciety for the Prevention OF Cruelty to Chill
dren.
The Boston Globe says that OF IA sam
| Iles Of drugs examined by the Board OF
| Health OF that city about one-hslf were OF
| improper quality, and Of 305 samples of
milk, nearly two-thirds were below the
| standard.
COLONEL I. j. JONES, commanding the
| Second Alabama Regiment, has shipped by
| express to the Governor of Connecticut the
| battle-fsg OF the Sixteenth Connecticut
| Regiment, taken at Plymouth, N. c., on
| April 90, 1864.
SAYS the New York correspondent OF the
Troy Times: "Proiessor Blckmire, who has
| Just returned from foreign tour, bshell
the pyramids fifteen days after sailing from
New York. This dispatch has never been
equaled, and probably never will be.n
A CORRESPONDENT OF the New York
Tribune, writing from West Cheshire, Conn.,,
who is 67 years Of age and served during
the war from 1869 to 1865, coming out Of
| the service 'diseased from head TO foot, u
| ayllu linn al ha "a
only one dollar a month, Witch was granted
him for the loss Of part Of the forefngel
Of bis right hand.
MRs. ADA q. BITTENBEEpEa, who 10 {
candidate for the supreme Court bench IL
N,braska, is the onlS woman lawyer In the
state. She ia graduate OF the Froebe
Normal Institute and Kindergarten OF
washlHgtun y. g., and uf the State Nor
NAL School at blogmslurg, Pa, In 1888.
sle was admit / 90 the bar, having studl 4
INV iu her hushaGd'5 o.llce.
TIE DEAR OH snvGs or HOME
Some sirpc word tny heart has stirred,
and thought IN lltncy sig9T4,
With hdlt-heuri rhyme aud my lhmio chime
10 bowl, o1's tlppv dfNs.
Like ln-u. bells. ulat ringing,
The Iucaofle, Oh ars gug
Now lautly, NOW r'Yi.r uGgNI hulr
MY molhcr swcetlY Hugug-
singing
sWeatly siudHg,
The dear Old sougs ul home.
All. happy boy with lnmIyel Joy;
How sweet the days uf old,
Nuon meath our gaze the lrplghts blaze
Shot up It's spears Of gold
see the Kettle swinging
uhe shadows round II cllngng,
It'll once again In sweet refrain
hear my mother singing
Singing,
Sweetly singing,
The dear old songs OF nome.
No lapse Of time can still the chime
OF the G far hidden belly;
| But In my ears, thrO' all these yeats,
The old.timo music dwells.
and now mid bells clear ringing,
with holy thou 'hts up sprinLlug;
Now faint, now clear, a,ain hear
bly, mother swt stiy singing
Sins,ng,
SwCetlysl singing,
The dear old songs OF homo.
FRED. L. WOODWARD.
shRdyside, 1861.